02/27/2026
Too good and too true not to share! Thank you for this Gabby. 💜
We have been taught, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that once someone dies, we stop talking about them. We lower our voices. We change the subject. We carry them quietly.
But what if the opposite is true?
If we don’t say their name, if we don’t tell their story, then their story stops being told. I believe that it is up to us to keep it alive.
I was sitting with my granddaughter once, telling her a story about my mom. She looked at me and said, “You have a mom?”
That question stayed with me.
Of course I have a mom. I have a dad, I have grandparents and many people woven all through my life who shaped me, loved me, taught me, and left me with so many memories. Just because my grandchildren never met them does not mean they did not exist.
I am who I am because of them and I want my grandchildren to know them.
The story does not end when a life ends.
They may have died, but their names deserve to be spoken. Their stories deserve to be remembered. Their memories rest with us, and we become their storytellers.
So say their name.
Tell their story.
Keep them woven into the fabric of your family.
Because love does not disappear.
It echoes.
xo
Gabby
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